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TOPIC: Can Couples Do the Dishes Together?
 

Daddy Clay
Re:Can Couples Do the Dishes Together?
1 Year, 4 Months ago
@ben

I am laughing at your pain. In a completely cathartic and healthy way, of course. Dude, I hope that dishwasher get there soon.

We have a dishwasher, but typical of all the appliances supplied by the school, it is the cheapest possible unit. Rather than actually clean the dishes, it simply redistributes the food particles more evenly across all items therein. If the dishes aren't pre-rinsed, and if the unit is loaded more than 3/4 full (I know, environmental nightmare), then the stemless wine glasses come out with the insides encrusted with what looks like coarse sand. Dried hard.

A fact that my wife has evidently failed to notice.

If I don't get to the dishwasher, to reorganize and reload, before she turns it on, it has to be run again. I should make a video of the slow motion "Nooooooo" as I dive at the dishwasher trying to get there before she turns it on.
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chris_f
Re:Can Couples Do the Dishes Together?
1 Year, 4 Months ago
Not in my house. My wife lets the dishes pile up next to the sink, so that when I get home...yup.

Her disclaimer is that that's actually the second load, the first load having been done earlier in the day.

Hmm...
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Daddy Troy
Re:Can Couples Do the Dishes Together?
1 Year, 4 Months ago
While she packs a better DW than me, I am totally faster. Which would you choose?

Right now we are trying:

One washes dishes, the other plays with the kids.

And if they are playing happily alone, then bonus time for us to talk to each other.
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ben
Re:Can Couples Do the Dishes Together?
1 Year, 4 Months ago
Update:

Lat night I got a full explanation. She and her sister were given a schedule for dishes when they were in their tween years. Every other day Mrs. Ben had to do them. But because her sister was a couple years older and had "activities" she would always skip her day, leaving my wife to do twice as much. So when she sees a sink of dishes she gets mad. Call it Post Tramatic Stress or something.

Dishwasher will be bought sometime this week.
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groovedaddy
Re:Can Couples Do the Dishes Together?
1 Year, 4 Months ago
Ben - Congrats on both the new dishwasher and getting a full explanation on your wife's 'dish rage'.

It must be a relief to know it's not something you did.

Chris_f - You could try checking for proof that it's the second load (buy soap tabs instead of powdered soap, then just count the remaining tabs) but I think the consequences of calling her bluff would be worse than doing a load of dishes...
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ben
Re:Can Couples Do the Dishes Together?
1 Year, 3 Months ago
We did some dishes together and enjoyed it tonight.

But the new dishwasher is finally here (ordered three weeks ago) and I spent 10 hours installing it. Since it was brand new into a stand alone cabinet across the kitchen from the sink, that's not too bad. 3 hours were spent waiting on a friend to cut the top of the fixture and 2 hardware store trips. So, not too shabby.

Except that there was an unexpected discovery which I'll save for another time/topic. I have to redo the drainage mechanics tomorrow. And it's not my fault!!!
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pfanndad
Re:Can Couples Do the Dishes Together?
1 Year, 3 Months ago
How did I miss this thread?

Well,
I come from a family that rarely used a DW.
My wife's family almost completely cleaned their dishes before they went in the DW.
Together we have made a good compromise.
If we do it together, one will rinse the other will load. I prefer loading and she prefers rinsing.
Also, she's very happy to do all that if I unload, which I also don't mind doing because I like things getting put away a certain way (nesting bowls are supposed to nest)

Same goes for the other chores.
Just a division of labor that works for us.
As my late FIL would call it...
"A Jack Sprat arrangement"
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